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| Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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| The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself |
| Marcel Proust |
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| The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration? |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. |
| Quentin Crisp |
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| There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion |
| Thomas Hobbes |
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| Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. |
| Joseph Joubert |
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| Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. |
| Wendell Phillips |
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| We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. |
| Olin Miller |
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| What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. |
| Gore Vidal |
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| What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion |
| Edmund Burke |
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